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[Saoirse]

Hi, I thought I would put a slight warning to people looking to have welding in done in the area near me. First off, you should know that in the past month and a week I have tried ringing, leaving messages, emailing and messaging on this forum with absolutely NO response. Wilderim_pickup offerred to help me out, came over, had a look at the car, seemed to definately know what he was talking about, and gave me a quote.

A few weeks later he came over and did a days work on the welding. This was putting all new panels on the front.

I haven't heard from him since, I have tried contacting him so many times it is ridiculous. He clearly wasn't going to come back and finish the job.

I think he was in way over his head. He chewed up one end of the scuttle panel, but put the wing on after, so I don't even know if he was planning to fix that. The welding itself was not good, some have come undone. He has dented the panels and mis-shaped them trying to make them fit. I've had 2 guys from garages come and give me a quote now and both have been very perplexed by his work.

I am now having to pay more than I would have done if I had not got this guy to do the welding.

After having so many calls and emails ignores, I believe he knows he did something very wrong and started alarm bells in my head.

No pleasure taken from writing this, but I wouldn't like anyone else to have the problems I've had.

Cheers, Saoirse

[nathansminis]

hello fellow guildfordian!

where about are you?

sorry to hear about the troubles.

let me know if you need a hand with anything.

[minidaves]

sorry to here that what did he quote? and any pics of what hes done, I might feel in a good mood to help you out

dave

[Shifty]

Thats crap mate sorry to hear that, I just hope that someone more local can help you out. I had always heard good things about Widrim, there may be a genuine reason why he hasn't been in touch?

It looks like you've had some good offers from local peeps and I hope you get it sorted.

[gregh55]

hi mate, we know how you feel we had a local guy do the work on our first mini and he had it over 9 months and it came back worse than it went. . . from a job that would of cost around £300 to do, will now cost use over £1500 to repair all the bodges this guy had done.

my old chap was very upset about it and he ended up scraping the shell with all the new panels on he wishes he didnt now!

sorry to here this has happend to you too.

greg

[widerim_pickup]

Hello,

Personal circumstances have delayed your work and sorry i have not replied. Your not the only person in the queue who has had delays in the process at this time. One other member on here has been waiting since mid august for me to view a car for a quote. The message you sent me the other day was read by myself and left to reply which i admit i have not done.

Maybe i should of kept you in the loop some more but as your number is nowhere to be found and i can't call a withheld number back. Time to get on a computer and PM you has not been availible, until the middle of this week or so but just about to get round to it when my attention was brought to this thread.

If you do want the work finishing for the same price, i'd be happy to finish it off, but only if you can get the car to my workshop, to maintain the peace.

As shifty has said i don't have any other bad press and would like that to remain the case.

Regards

Damien

[Saoirse]

Hi all, appreciate all the replys.

I'm actually not quite a Guildfordian, more of a haslemere(-ian?). Just simpler to say Gford I guess!

I am awaiting to hear back from a local guy who works in a garage near me, hopefully he can do the welding. I was told the easiest thing to do would be to get new panels, but I was very against that after spending a month's pay on the current ones!

As for this case, it was unprofessional and really disheartening. There is no doubt in my mind!

Cheers, Saoirse

[Shifty]

I know I'm not really involved, but....!!

Just in the interest of being fair, would it be possible to get some pics up of Widrims work?

One of the complaints was the quality of his work, If I were him I'd want my name cleared on that count!!

[Saoirse]

I know I'm not really involved, but....!!

Just in the interest of being fair, would it be possible to get some pics up of Widrims work?

One of the complaints was the quality of his work, If I were him I'd want my name cleared on that count!!

That is fair enough, I will take a few tomorrow and upload them.

[Saoirse]

Left side







Right headlight



Here you can see the dent in my new wing



Here's a part where the welding has come undone



Here's how the scuttle was left but with the wing already welded on

[Ouster]

Did he have his glasses on??

[liam_italian]

Sweet baby jesus and the orphans, that's the worst welding I have ever seen, he clearly has no idea what so ever how to weld mini panels! I can only feel for you mate! If you lived near me Id gladly help you put it right!

Wilderim_pickup if I was you I'd hang my head in shame, you are a true cowboy if there ever was one!

Edited by liam_italian, 25 October 2009 - 12:22 PM.

[robtheplod]

That's shocking, .... I'm a complete newbie and can honestly say I can do a better job than that!

I thought you were supposed to weld INSIDE where the wing/front panel join???

You should be after the money he charged for his time on this as well as any panels he has damaged, as it will need to be done properly.....

Edited by robtheplod, 25 October 2009 - 12:26 PM.

[captainjack15]

Oh dear

[HARBER07]

To be fair, getting pattern panels to fit isn't that easy. Maybe he was just tacking them on to check for fit? But genuinely can't work out why he didn't fit the scuttle first, and why he welded along the join externally???